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H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report For H-German: 28 November - 5 December
H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report For H-German: 28 November - 5 December
Call for Applications from PhD Candidates: Monthlong Research Fellowships at USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research (2023-2024) (Deadline 31 January 2023)e
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Fellowship
Date:
January 31, 2023
CfP: Anna Seghers’ Late Work: Visions and Premonitions
Papers to be presented at the German Studies Conference from 5-8 October at Le Centre Sheraton Montreal in Montréal, Quebec.
CFA: Earn an M.A. in German Studies Funded by Teaching German Language at the University of Missouri
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CFA: Max and Hilde Kochmann Summer School for PhD Students in European-Jewish History and Culture 2023, 4-7 June 2023
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Workshop
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June 4, 2023 to June 7, 2023
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Recent Reviews
Reviewer:
Emily Bruce
Bruce on Daub, 'The Dynastic Imagination: Family and Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Germany'
Adrian Daub.
The Dynastic Imagination: Family and Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Germany.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. 253 pp.
$95.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-226-73773-7; $29.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-226-73787-4. 
Reviewer:
Robert Radu
Radu on Johnston, 'Networks of Modernity: Germany in the Age of the Telegraph, 1830-1880'
Jean-Michel Johnston. Networks of Modernity: Germany in the Age of the Telegraph, 1830-1880. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. 304 pp. $80.75 (e-book), ISBN 978-0-19-259894-3; $85.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-885688-7.
Reviewed by Robert Radu (Universität Bonn) Published on H-German (October, 2022) Commissioned by Matthew Unangst (SUNY Oneonta)
Reviewer:
Tim Mueller
Mueller on Roche, 'The Third Reich's Elite Schools: A History of the Napolas'
Helen Roche. The Third Reich's Elite Schools: A History of the Napolas. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. 544 pp. $115.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-872612-8.
Reviewed by Tim Mueller (Chester and Fourth) Published on H-German (September, 2022) Commissioned by Jasper Heinzen (Department of History, University of York)
Printable Version: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=58077
Reviewer:
Tobias Huff
Huff on Ault, 'Saving Nature under Socialism: Transnational Environmentalism in East Germany, 1968-1990'
Julia E. Ault. Saving Nature under Socialism: Transnational Environmentalism in East Germany, 1968-1990. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. xiii + 262 pp. $99.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-316-51914-1.
Reviewed by Tobias Huff (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz) Published on H-German (August, 2022) Commissioned by Matthew Unangst (SUNY Oneonta)
Reviewer:
James Chappel
Chappel on Patch, 'Christian Democratic Workers and the Forging of German Democracy, 1920-1980'
William L, Patch. Christian Democratic Workers and the Forging of German Democracy, 1920-1980. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. 340 pp. $105.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-108-42411-0.
Reviewed by James Chappel Published on H-German (July, 2022) Commissioned by Matthew Unangst (SUNY Oneonta)
Printable Version: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=56137
Reviewer:
Frank Uekoetter
Uekoetter on Treitel, 'Eating Nature in Modern Germany: Food, Agriculture and Environment, c.1870 to 2000'
Corinna Treitel. Eating Nature in Modern Germany: Food, Agriculture and Environment, c.1870 to 2000. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. 404 pp. $125.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-107-18802-0; $34.99 (paper), ISBN 978-1-316-63839-2.
Reviewed by Frank Uekoetter (University of Birmingham) Published on H-German (May, 2022) Commissioned by Jasper Heinzen (Department of History, University of York)
Reviewer:
Julia Sonnevend
Sonnevend on Harrison, 'After the Berlin Wall: Memory and the Making of the New Germany, 1989 to the Present'
Hope M. Harrison.
After the Berlin Wall: Memory and the Making of the New Germany, 1989 to the Present.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Illustrations. 2019. 478 pp.
$34.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-107-04931-4.
Reviewer:
Liam M. Brockey
Brockey on Strasser, 'Missionary Men in the Early Modern World: German Jesuits and Pacific Journeys'
Ulrike Strasser. Missionary Men in the Early Modern World: German Jesuits and Pacific Journeys. Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World Series. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2020. 274 pp. $127.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-946298630-5.
Reviewed by Liam M. Brockey (Michigan State University) Published on H-German (April, 2022) Commissioned by Jasper Heinzen (Department of History, University of York)
Reviewer:
Paul Steege
Steege on Ladd, 'The Streets of Europe: The Sights, Sounds, and Smells that Shaped Its Great Cities'
Brian Ladd. The Streets of Europe: The Sights, Sounds, and Smells that Shaped Its Great Cities. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. x + 303 pp. Maps, ill. $30.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-226-67794-1.
Reviewed by Paul Steege (Villanova University) Published on H-German (April, 2022) Commissioned by Jasper Heinzen (Department of History, University of York)
Reviewer:
J M. Wolfe
Wolfe on Best, 'Heavenly Fatherland: German Missionary Culture and Globalization in the Age of Empire'
Jeremy Best. Heavenly Fatherland: German Missionary Culture and Globalization in the Age of Empire. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2021. xiv + 322 pp. $75.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4875-0563-9.
Reviewed by J M. Wolfe (Louisiana State University) Published on H-German (March, 2022) Commissioned by Matthew Unangst (SUNY Oneonta)